The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Elayne Boosler was a regular performer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Carson, and this week the “new” guy Jimmy Fallon brought her back for a new stand-up set. Just in time for the next Macy’s One Day Sale! The main thing that’s changed for her since the Carson era …
On this day in 1982, the first year of David Letterman’s 33-year run in late-night television, Todd Barry already was a man with a plan for his comedy career. Or as Letterman introduced him: “Todd Barry. Apparently a man with a lot of time on his hands.” That’s because he …
Drew Lynch was just your average young aspiring stand-up comedian with a stutter, inasmuch as any stuttering comic can be average, until he walked onstage for his audition in this year’s 10th anniversary of America’s Got Talent. Lynch had 4,445 Twitter followers as his audition began airing Tuesday night on …
Did the six-minute finale montage at the end of Late Show with David Letterman — expertly synchronized to a live performance of “Everlong” by Foo Fighters — make you wish you could hit the pause button more than a few times while still listening to the song? Well, then, thank …
The mild racism bit is going to resonate and go over well. The Israel and Palestine stuff will push a lot of buttons and get you some blowback but you know that already. And you’re really going to close with the child molester bit? Wow. That’s what I told Louis …
In case you missed it a couple of weeks ago, Late Night with Seth Meyers last night rebroadcast the May 1 episode that featured stand-up from Phil Hanley. Hanley has had some weird roommates over the years. Old and older is the best way to describe them. Well, maybe not …
When Saturday Night Live presented a Win, Lose or Draw game show spoof that perplexed a contestant with the dilemma of drawing the Islamic prophet Muhammad, I noted simply: Topical. After all, the Muslim-haters in Texas had just incited a shooting the week before with a “Draw Muhammad” contest. What …
Jeff Garlin here tells the story of being in line at airport security behind an elderly black man, and oh yes, he’ll voice the whole encounter of the old black man with TSA about his lotions and creams, and there’s a lot of talk about lotion in his voice and …
Six big takeaways from Dave Itzkoff’s sit-down with David Letterman for The New York Times as Letterman approaches his final month as a late-night TV host (and for a seventh, how about this photo from Damon Winter that reveals Letterman has wall of stacked paper cups along his dressing-room mirror …
